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KSBD 4-76

When you have mastered sweeping, you must master the way of drawing water. Once you have learned how to draw water, you must split wood. Once you have split wood, you must learn the arts of finding the fine herbs in the forest, the arts of writing, the arts of paper making, and poetry writing. You must become familiar with the awl and the pen in equal measure. When you have mastered all these things you must master building a house.

Once your house is built, you have no further need for a sword, since it is an ugly piece of metal and its adherents idiots.”

It appears that I will be the second.
Wow. Now Mottom looks like a lich queen not unlike Jadis. Also a nice one. Wormlings are annoying.
Meanwhile, the plot thickens. King Zoss was chased by Thorn angels? Who took the guy they must’ve mistaken for a successor. (Unless he really was, and Zoss was forced to improvise. Or just improvised while being chased.) And got caught by Jagganoth, who is indeed wrathful, red and great, but far from being an idiot. So now he really wants to know WTF is happening? As we all do.
Delightful. Make more.

From what i can tell, her entire existence seems to be based around imitation of others. I would bet that Gog-Agog is no more than a sentinient mass of worms, in longing – envious, even – of a more natural shape.

Perhaps more than imitation… she also seems to be subtly assuming the vocal mannerisms of those she responds to. What if she is speaking the thoughts they each hide in their own minds with each of her accusations? Could her “imitation” go much, much deeper than might be apparent?

I must say, Mottom doesn’t make a very convincing argument to convince her companions of her innocence. That being said, I appriciate her capacity and talent of not wasting words during this paricular discussion.

Yet another amazing Offering, Abbadon. I can’t wait to see where this whole thing is headed.

Also, a side note, I know you’re probably crazy busy with other things and the comic itself but I’m sure most of us readers would love some more additions to the Daemoniac to hold us over between Wednesdays.

So are the thorn knights affiliated with Incubus in any way? I was curious as to the symbolism others pointed out with the BF’s kidnappers having only one eye and open chested shirts, but perhaps thats simply an angel thing(23 has one eye, same as 82).

Keep in mind the dreadful alternative would be to be once and immensely delighted to gaze at such marvelous construct, but then become forever perilously saddened that there is nothing else more to see of it.

The amount of detail in every picture and every frame never seizes to astonish… I’ve read through the series like three times and I keep finding small tokens and hints, symbolism and hidden easter-eggs.

Noticing how Gog-Agog copies the person of her last accusation, one must wonder what Mottom dislikes about it.

Thank you once again, Lord Abaddon. We might be ignorant of the teachings, but all the more attentive to the learning through his works.

Well, she’s got a classic dilemma here. Stand her ground on anything and she’ll offend the other gods and get PERISH!ed. Don’t stand her ground and she’ll disappoint her master, which probably isn’t healthy either. Catch-666 (which is like a catch-22 with extra demons).

Ahh, but the coins of falsehood are the best item to own out of all! The more you have the more easier you can swindle people into believing your logical fallacies! Chief amongst them the insanity/sanity fallacy:

Common logic dictates that if someone insists on being insane they are most likely a sane person but rather delusional or attention starved. But most insane people insist that they are in fact right and not crazy at all and the green sky of their native home world really is the colour of “Octarine”.

The best way to drive someone to pure frothing madness is to introduce them to this fallacy after they accuse you of being mad or an attention seeker. All you have to do is to perform increasingly erratic and contradictory behaviour, deny your own philosophy, feign and forget and insist on making a total fool of yourself until your victim completely and utterly snaps! As an insult to injury point out some kind of blatant fact, like say: Tomatoes are actually fruit not vegetables.

The outfit changed when she was mimicking Incubus’s servant, too. In the panel before, she has a red neckerchief that completely covers her cleavage, but after the servant speaks and she responds, it’s all on display.

“The initiate into the hermetic mysteries will be taught the use of many tools. Circles, geometric shapes, elements, powders, goblets, music, mathematics, wands, gems, staves, swords, coins, pentacles, glass, pyramids, charts, diagrams, ritual purification, and fire. The initiate will believe these to be key to their power.

The Master knows these are affectations. That only Words and Will are necessary. And by the speaking of those words, the Master may bend the cosmos to his Will.”
-Visius bani Trifalger, “On Hermetic Theory And The Use Of Ritual Implements”

I wouldn’t be so quick as to dismiss all symbols like that. Symbols help with our understanding of the nature of existence.

Imagine a massive powerful bloke with a lot of will and physical fortitude but not only is he illiterate but he has no true understanding of the reality around him so what good are his words when he can only say “Hargguguflubluhuhugle”? It’s pure gibberish and carries no power or intent. Whereas a neophyte of magic can recognise the connection between symbols and the things they represent to draw upon his power.

A thought. Gog-Agog represents envy, yeah? What if Ol’ Goggy stole Mottom’s previous beauty, turning her into a withered crone? She definitely has no patience for for Gog-Agog’s accusations or mimicry antics.

So I was playing adventure mode in dwarf fortress, I had been trying to find a way to seed steel armor/weapons around the world and had the idea of making a steel angel race that falls apart into said armor/weapons on death. It didn’t work but I had fun making them silly fast/strong and running around with them a bit during testing. I made them peaceful so they wouldn’t wipe out everyone else during world generation, but during a recent adventure I found a bandit camp near one of the angel towns.

I enter to find military angels attacking bandit angels, and suddenly my squishy little elf adventurer was Allison in 4-63 going “omg nope nope nope” as the ridiculous speed and hand-to-hand attacks tuned for removing limbs resulted in a rain of metal bodyparts and little metal women shooting around hacking each other to bits.

Also kinda glad I made it so the angels don’t spread too far, roaming through one of their settlements and seeing an asterisk moving on the map means it is possible you are about to be ambushed by a hyperfast metal swordsman or something… nope nope nope…